Saturday Stuff

On a sunny but cold Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden declares a major disaster for Texas.

From Townhall, Texas Democrats warn Biden about his immigration policies.

From The Washington Free Beacon, is former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R) California's next Arnold Schwarzenegger?

From the Washington Examiner, what happened in Texas is "a wakeup call for the power grid".

From The Federalist, PolitiFact doesn't like their fact-check being fact-checked.

From American Thinker, the "China class" and its opposition to President Trump.

From CNS News, according to Trump, Iran will try to drive a hard bargain for Biden.

From NewsBusters, five apologies owed by Hollywood to the American people.

From Canada Free Press, are Democrats emerging as the party of hate and vengeance?

From CTV News, nine Algonquin First Nations in the Canadian province of Quebec reject a land project in which another Algonquin group would build a suburb of Ottawa.  (The Canadian capital of Ottawa is in the province of Ontario, but borders Quebec.)

From The Conservative Woman, the inconvenient truth about violent gang attacks in Paris.

From Snouts in the Trough, predictions about climate disasters have been "farcically-wrong" for a long time.

From the (U.K.) Independent, fishermen in the U.K. want the right to shoot beavers.

From EuroNews, Dutch Senators pass a new coronavirus curfew.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian refugee allegedly kills two patients at a psychiatric hospital in Lüneburg, Germany.

From About Hungary, Hungary reports 2,995 new cases of the coronavirus.

From ReMix, two Belarusian journalists working for the Polish media company Belsat are sentenced to two years in a penal colony for filming protests against President Lukashenko.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Moscow Times, a Moscow court upholds a prison term for Russian dissident Alexey Navalny.

From Radio Bulgaria, more Bulgarians want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Free West Media, a migrant from Sudan reportedly kills the manager of an asylum center in Pau, France.

From Ahval, the minbar in a mosque in Irzincan, Turkey becomes a meme.  (A minbar is the Islamic equivalent of a pulpit, and should most definitely not be confused with a minibar.)

From The New Arab, Iraqi security forces kill five ISIS terrorists in a clash, but lose two of their own.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz alleges election rigging.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian military commanders discuss further disengagement in the territory of Ladakh.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden cannot allow the Taliban to destroy former President Trump's efforts at peace in Afghanistan.

From The Stream, The New York Times finally learns about unintended consequences.

From The American Conservative, "on writing around censors".

From the New York Post, Republican congresscritters blast the $1.9 billion coronavirus aid bill from Democrat congresscritters as a "liberal wish list".

From Newsmax, a space station supply ship is named after Katherine Johnson, the mathematician featured in the movie Hidden Figures.

From Fox News, how will NASA engineers pilot the first helicopter on Mars?

And from the Genesius Times, in an effort to reach out to Trump supporters, Biden tries a new hairdo.